I will start with a few items, and you can add more,
1. What was a MAHL STICK? (a device to prop up the truck hood)
2. KIT CAN (the area designated for the shop cat to go to the bathroom)
3. CHARCOAL STICK ( Same as the stuff you use in the grill only smaller and straighter)
4. CHINA MARKER ( This was a Chinese tape measure to mark out big graphics on football fields
5. 1 SHOT ( all you were good for with your wife in the bed room after inhaling lacquer thinner all day
6. SNAPPER ( A term applied to a sign guy who would pull back the elastic on a sign gals panties as she was bent over working and let it "snap". This was before anyone ever even heard of sexual harassment)
O.K. I think I got those right. I know there are more.
How about you?
Posted by Alicia B. Jennings (Member # 1272) on :
6.Sizing the Glass (It's a term used to measure a glass to see how big a hammer your gonna need to break it, cause the check bounced) 7. Boxing the Paint (It's how paint is shopped, in a box) 8. Whistling Tack (It's the sound you hear when a sign guy sits on a poorly upholstered stool) 9. Palletting the Brush (It's when you lick the brush to make sure it's made of real squirrel hair) 10. Indelible Pencil ( Used to pinstripe white banners also used by Cholas for lipliner) See Picture,,, Posted by Rick Sacks (Member # 379) on :
Pounce Patterns when you put all those papers in a refrigerator box and jump off the porch roof into the box to compress them
Layout when all the guys in the shop take their after lunch nap
Varnish paint with no color used for practice, especially for us that havn't learned to spell correctly yet
Posted by Sheila Ferrell (Member # 3741) on :
Here's an oldy . . .
Nose grease - well . . . turns out it's actually good for one thing . . .
Paint skin - lid.
Pounce wheel - sometimes used to perforate pizza in-shop . . . On site: you get to tell inquisitive customers, 'Yeh - it takes HOURS poking all these holes with a straight pin to create this pattern . . . '
Phone book - a paint pallet.
Cup of coffee - paint thinner cup.
Screw-driver - a tool used to impale the palm of your hand when removing shipping clips off paint cans.
Exact-o knife - a rolling tool used to instantly remind you where your feet are in relationship to any unlevel surface where you're working . . .
Meanwhile Rick!! - how's it going in Mendocino!! Have the fires affected you????
Posted by Rick Sacks (Member # 379) on :
Sheila, the fires were thirty miles inland and the smoke covered the coast making some very colorful sunsets. We know several that lost homes. We are doing fine though. Megan and I are working the shop without any employees and absolutely loving it. Taking in some fun jobs, working for nice people, doing it at a pace that's comfortable for us. We get to stay around home and enjoy our community, and most every afternoon I get to make a trip into town to meet with friends for a session at a coffee house we all like. My friend Gary Rhoades moves to Bamalama a few years back and I hope that you get to meet him and make some music.
Posted by Sheila Ferrell (Member # 3741) on :
Awesome - you are truly blessed!
I wish I could come out there and bring items or work to help out fire victims. The recent mudslide event is heart wrenching.
Hey - give your buddy my number! I'm always on-board for a jam session!
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